MW
wrote war poetry. The Lad Out There (whose title perhaps remembers Housman
) catches the tone of poems by women left behind and gives it a maternal flavour: So young he is, so dear...
Anthologization
Enid Blyton
It was perhaps EB
's high point as a poet when she had five pieces included in an anthology that also featured work by John Masefield
, Walter de la Mare
, and Rudyard Kipling
.
Stoney, Barbara. Enid Blyton. Hodder and Stoughton.
49
Dedications
Edith Wharton
EW
published a volume of short stories entitled Certain People on 21 October 1930 (the same day of the year as two earlier publications).
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
21 October 2014
Her final collection of stories, Ghosts, appeared...
Family and Intimate relationships
Naomi Royde-Smith
The poet Walter de la Mare
was in love with NRS
for a period of some years from 1911: some sources refer to them as lovers. His biographer suggests that she was able to give...
Friends, Associates
Rose Macaulay
Friends who attended the house-warming of her London flat included Naomi Royde-Smith
, Rupert Brooke
, and Walter de la Mare
.
Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
xxxv
Friends, Associates
Rose Macaulay
In 1921 RM
was spending several nights a week in a room she rented in the large house of writer Naomi Royde-Smith
at 44 Prince's Gardens, Kensington.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
191
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins.
100
Chosen by Royde-Smith as a...
Friends, Associates
Alison Uttley
By the time AU
's mentor, Professor Alexander,
died (deeply upset about Hitler's rule in Germany), she had met another father-figure and important friend, the poet Walter de la Mare
. She also developed friendships...
Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer
Friends, Associates
Storm Jameson
SJ
greatly admired Walter de la Mare
and they began to correspond in 1921, shortly before she published an essay on him in the English Review. She made several visits to his home at...
Friends, Associates
Ruth Pitter
RP
knew T. S. Eliot
well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and...
Several poems in A Candle Ahead invoke ME
's teachers: Milton
, Thomas Traherne
, Walter de la Mare
, and Thomas Hardy
, the theme of whose The Well-Beloved is that of her closing...
Timeline
November 1925: Actress Ellen Terry gave her final stage...
Building item
November 1925
Actress Ellen Terry
gave her final stage performance in Walter de la Mare
's Crossings at the Lyric Theatre
in Hammersmith near London.
After February 1932: An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk's case...
Writing climate item
After February 1932
An appeal of Count Potocki of Montalk
's case was heard; and although he was not cleared, an advance in obscene libel cases was made.
Texts
De la Mare, Walter. “Fiction. ‘An Old Wives’ Tale’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 357, p. 403.
De la Mare, Walter. “Jane Oglander”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 479, p. 110.
De la Mare, Walter. “Miss Underhill’s Poems”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 770, p. 499.
De la Mare, Walter. “Poems in War-Time”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 702, p. 217.
De la Mare, Walter. “The Lodger”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 608, p. 364.
De la Mare, Walter. “When No Man Pursueth”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 423, p. 56.